Public domain and copyright terms
A little late for Public Domain Day (blogged here last year - and the issues there are updated here), here's a list of written, artistic, and musical works which have now entered the public domain; Continue Reading
Happy public domain day! – Updated
The combination of sections 24 and 35 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 (also here; implementing EU Directives) means that copyright in a literary work expires from the first of January, Continue Reading
Should galleries and museums display offensive art?
I have on this blog regularly discussed the extent to which offensive speech can be restricted. For example, there are many (many) posts on this blog on censorship and blasphemy. Furthermore, I have Continue Reading
Is Apollinaire obscene? The ECHR says: no!
When I was growing up, I read a children's book called The Arabian Nights, an innocent version of the Islamic classic One Thousand and One Nights. Perhaps surprisingly, a group of Egyptian lawyers Continue Reading
Updates: Joyce, hecklers and broadcasting
I suppose if I spent ages thinking about it, I could find a spurious thread linking three stories that caught my eye over the last few days, but in truth there is none, except that they update Continue Reading
Blawg Review #164
0. Prolegomenon, or Why me? Today is Bloomsday, the centrepiece of a weeklong festival in Dublin celebrating the day in 1904 on which the events of James Joyce's novel Ulysses unfold, which is the Continue Reading
Fair Use – Recalibrating the balance in Fair Dealing
This is a call to arms; or at least, a call for legislation which would radically recast EU copyright law. Intellectual property law and policy are all about innovation, both encouraging it and Continue Reading
Hi there! Thanks for dropping by. I'm Eoin O'Dell, and this is my blog: Cearta.ie - the Irish for rights.
